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Postharvest Management of Fresh Produce

Recent Advances

  • 1st Edition - July 29, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Bhim Pratap Singh, Shekhar Agnihotri, Garima Singh, Vijai Kumar Gupta
  • Language: English

Postharvest Management of Fresh Produce: Recent Advances critically addresses the latest issues, challenges, and technological advancements in postharvest management of fresh com… Read more

Description

Postharvest Management of Fresh Produce: Recent Advances critically addresses the latest issues, challenges, and technological advancements in postharvest management of fresh commodities, especially fruits, nuts, and vegetables. The book covers the intriguing correlation of preharvest treatments, maturity indices and postharvest operations that significantly affect the postharvest quality of fresh produce. Further topics include packaging, logistics and storage technologies, the role of microbial communities, and ‘omics’ strategies in postharvest disease management. Special attention is given to the latest trends of nanotechnology, internet of things (IoTs), and blockchain technologies in food supply chain management of perishable products.

The book is a great resource for young and experienced professionals in academia, industry, and UG/PG students to explore a diversified range of topics in postharvest strategies relevant to food processing, food technologies, agro-processing and quality control.

Key features

  • Thoroughly explores major preharvest losses due to non-availabilities of the latest technologies
  • Describes the latest trends in the supply chain to minimize preharvest losses
  • Provides an overview on smart technologies such as nanotechnology, IoTs and blockchain technology

Readership

Academic students, scientists, and researchers at universities, institutes, industries, and government organizations who want to understand the latest development in biotechnological tools to handle the fresh produce to avoid food loss

Table of contents

1. Preharvest treatments affecting postharvest quality of fresh produce

2. Maturity and harvesting issues on postharvest management of fruits and vegetables

3. Postharvest operations and its impact on shelf life and quality of fresh produce

4. Postharvest quality evaluation and assessment of fruits, nuts and vegetables

5. Packaging, logistics and storage strategies for minimizing postharvest decay of perishable commodities

6. Green and non-destructive technologies for postharvest management of fresh produce

7. Microbial diversity, monitoring and control during postharvest management of fruits and vegetables

8. Prevalence and etiology of postharvest fungal diseases in fresh produce

9. Ecofriendly strategies in postharvest disease management

10. Smart sensors for Monitoring and Diagnosis of postharvest losses during supply chain

11. Omics approaches in postharvest biology and food security

12. Recent advancements in smart and Intelligent packaging technologies

13. Nanotechnological interventions in postharvest management and food processing

14. Internet of things (IoTs) and blockchain technology in supply chain of horticulture crops

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: July 29, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

BS

Bhim Pratap Singh

Dr. Singh is working as a Professor and Head, Department of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences at National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management (NIFTEM), Kundli, Haryana, India, and has more than 20 years of experience in applied microbiology with a special focus on endophytic microorganisms and their applications in agriculture and health sciences. Dr. Singh explored the indigenous fermented products of Northeast India and isolated several probiotic strains, and characterized them. Currently, his group is exploring these isolated strains for their potential to synthesize neurotransmitters such as GABA, serotonin, dopamine, and SCFAs, and incorporating these strains into functional beverages by adopting co-encapsulation technology. Dr. Singh has published more than 100 research articles and is a part of the Global Burden of Diseases collaborators. Dr. Singh edited 8 books with Elsevier and Springer on different aspects of applied microbiology.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Head of Department of Agriculture & Environmental Sciences (AES), National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship & Management (NIFTEM), An Institute of National Importance (INI), Haryana, India

SA

Shekhar Agnihotri

Dr. Shekhar Agnihotri Ph.D. (Nanotechnology) is currently working as an Assistant Professor at National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management, Sonepat (Haryana) under the Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MOFPI), Government of India. With a unique blend of science and engineering disciplines, Dr. Shekhar comes with two postgraduate degrees, MS (Biochemistry) and M.Tech (Biochemical Engineering) from IIT-BHU and has worked in a joint collaborative research at IIT Kanpur. Later he completed his PhD in Nanotechnology from IIT Bombay receiving the prestigious IIT-B Excellence Award for Best PhD thesis. Dr. Shekhar is the recipient of DST young scientist award, Indo-Japan Young Fellowship Award, Gold access award (Royal Society of Chemistry, UK), and TIET Best Performer Award. His expertise lies in the area of nano-biotechnology, bioprocess engineering and enzyme technology and has published in high impact factor journals. Dr. Shekhar pursues interests in integrating immobilized enzymes and nano-supports for generating value-added products from agro-waste, novel packaging and smart sensing technologies.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management, Sonepat (Haryana) under the Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MOFPI), Government of India, India

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Garima Singh

Dr. Singh is working as Assistant Professor at Pachhunga University College (PUC) campus of Mizoram Central University, Mizoram, India. She has completed her doctorate in 2018 from Mizoram University, India in plant sciences and worked on the pharmaceutical potential of selected traditional medicinal plants. Dr. Singh has 8 years of research experience and has published several research papers in national and international journals having high impact factor like Scientific reports, BMC complementary and alternative medicine, frontiers in plant sciences, etc. Dr. Singh has awarded for her work by several agencies while presenting her research work in India and abroad. Her expertise lies in the areas of utilization of traditional medicinal plants for sustainable development, secondary metabolites extraction and documentation of traditional medicinal pants. Dr. Singh is running one externally funded project to explore the pharmaceutical potential of some selected traditional medicinal plants located in North East India.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Botany, Pachhunga University College (PUC) campus, Mizoram University, Aizawl, Mizoram, India

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Vijai Kumar Gupta

Dr. Vijai Kumar Gupta holds a doctoral degree in Microbiology from Dr RML Avadh University, India. Currently, he is working as Senior Fellow and Group Leader at Center for Safe and Improved Foods & Biorefining and Advanced Materials Research Center, SRUC, Edinburgh, UK. Dr Gupta is an expert in Biomass Valorisation, Microbial Engineering Biotechnologies, Enzyme and Bioprocessing Technologies, Bioactive Natural Products, and Functional Microbiome. Overall focus of his research is on developing bioprocess technologies to valorise available bioresources for the production of value-added biochemicals, bioproducts, and fuels and their potential to address the key challenges in agri-food-pharma-environment importance. He has published several peer-reviewed publications, 48 book chapters and 42 books in his hands.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor (Biochemistry), AgroBioSciences (AgBS)/Chemical and Biochemical Sciences (CBS), Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), Morocco

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